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Explain what natural language processing (NLP) is.


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Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) and language engineering that focuses on enabling computers to understand, interpret and manipulate natural human language. In NLP, computers process, analyze and generate human language communication in text and speech. This can involve tasks such as recognizing and extracting information from the text, understanding its structure and meaning, and generating new text with the same meaning.